America's Storms.

While Britain has been stunned by some incredibly pleasant weather America has been equally stunned by some incredibly unpleasant weather. Starting on April 15th America has seen the largest single Tornado system in history. In just two days it caused 115 separate tornadoes across 14 states including one that was caught on CCTV as it tore through St Louis airport. As almost always these tornadoes were accompanied by storm rains and flash flooding as far north as Washington state and forced the emergency shutdown of two nuclear power stations.

This has been followed by even more tornadoes which caused further damage. There are now 16 separate states of emergency in effect over the United States and in Alabama and South Carolina the National Guard has been deployed to deal with the devastation. With many bodies still to be recovered the current death toll stands at 220.

Obviously I don't want to make light of what is clearly a tragic set of circumstances. However when you consider that the America backed government of Afghanistan use this flag;



While the American back Libyan rebels use this incredibly similar flag;



I think there's a phrase about seeding the breeze and reaping the whirlwind in this story somewhere.